Vincenzo Balsamo paints since the fifties.
His first artworks are figurative paintings. They regard Italian landscapes
(Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Campania) particularly intense and intimate where the
pictorial technique, composed by vibrant brush strokes, delights in a sort of
play of fantastic tonalities.

During the seventies Balsamo stops
painting figurative works: It is the so-called “first abstraction” period where he actually returns to the
coloured background of the landscapes, but without a hint of figuration
and separated by a black sign that becomes the texture of the memory. During
the late seventies Balsamo researches and experiments.

Nebulose
(Nebulas) (1977-78) are not envisaged as a celestial
world, but as a mental and internal journey in search of the right balance
between the gestural mark and - alongside and upon - the colour.

Evocazioni
(Evocations) (1978-79) are complex and introspective works
characterized by strangely deformed, surreal and fantastic figures,
symptoms of weariness and doubt.

In the early eighties Balsamo strives to
regain his expressive thought and spends time at his easel in order to
rediscover a new, more congenial world. It is the so-called “second abstraction” period and he
paints works inspired by an abstract-cubistic concept.

In 1987 begins the “Lyrical Abstraction” phase where the sign, the colour and the
light are made up among them as if they would peer into the human
"I"